Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liu Xiang

Of course, rivals do affect athletes mentally, but if you are competing with top-notch athletes, you will push each other, you will encourage each other.

None of this sort of news is good for the athlete or good for the sport. We're just going to focus on making sure the policies of the organization and the policies of our partner organizations are followed and that the due processes are put in place so it's done fairly and equitably.

On film they don't look that bad to me. They have some good athletes and are well coached. They look like a pretty good football team. They lost their first game, but that can happen to anybody.

My cross county coach in high school made a big impact on me as a athlete. I have been dreaming of having a cross county team to work with and have that impact on them as athletes and young adults.

Brian O'Driscoll

I'm not privy to the English set-up, but at the academies in Ireland, there is a huge focus on the weights room as opposed to whether they can throw a 10-metre pass on the run. They should be rugby players becoming athletes, not athletes becoming rugby players.

When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who have tremendous power and affluence. It's not in my DNA, but certainly I have been exposed to it.

Johnny Weir

The life of an athlete does have to be lonely and you have to be focused on your craft and what you do. Loneliness is just a sacrifice you make as an Olympic-level athlete.

With Brad van Hoff in center, if the ball goes up, it's pretty much caught out there. The kid can run. Charlie Carter's one of the best athletes I've seen around here at Eastside, as far as all-around baseball players. He can do it all.

With athletes like this they always make things look easier than they really are. Then you watch him in the outfield. ... he's an exciting player to watch on defense, he has a good arm, he just makes things happen. Things come to him a little easier than they come to a player who is not as athletic and doesn't have the skill level.

With athletes like Dave Mirra in the competition I couldn't just sit back, I had to go for it. It was a rough start to the season, I'm happy to finally have my first win on the Tour.

Chris Pratt

I was an athlete growing up and I miss that. I miss hanging out with dudes and making raunchy jokes and telling stories, trading details, you know? There's something I really miss about that.

We return everyone from last year's squad and we will compete well. We don't have great pure soccer players but we have multi-sport athletes who play very hard.

There are a lot of guys in Florida, and sometimes you just don't get seen. He was known as an athlete and not a player. But he's come here and improved and worked very hard and been diligent to get better. He's one of those who slipped through the cracks.

Kenenisa Bekele

There are many strong athletes and I'm sure they've trained harder this year. A lot of people would like to snatch these titles from me.

Don Kardong

When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.

Charlie Kimball

The typical response from people when I tell them I'm diabetic is, 'Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.' You know, I'm not. I'm a better athlete because of diabetes rather than despite it. I'm more aware of my training, my fitness and more aware of nutrition. I'm more proactive about my health.

Charlie Pierce

If you offer athletes stipends, then you're into pay-for-play, and that's the ballgame. People should realize that, and they should realize that amateurism never has been a sustainable model for a sports-entertainment industry. It wasn't in tennis. It wasn't in the Olympics. And it's not in big-time college sports.

But she's such a phenomenal athlete that she plays much bigger than that. She plays like she's 6-4 or 6-5.

Both skiers were on edge and had small form breaks. ... The two athletes and the crowd waited in suspense to see who the judges would advance.

Scott Erickson

Both return many fine athletes off their playoff teams a year ago.

Both options are there for the athlete. But we just like for athletes to discuss the future of the program with the new coaches.

We've been pretty busy cleaning up after our one outspoken cowboy. (Miller) definitely feels entitlement. His impression is that he's really not that much work for us because he's not around much, but he's bar-none twice the work of any other athlete in the program.

We've been out of position on a lot of those plays. We have been working on that. It concerns me, but it hasn't hurt us in the final outcome. We have some good athletes to make up for those type of plays and these guys will hit you.

The opening ceremonies both times was the best part for me. With all those athletes and all those colors, flags and music, it's moving. I wish I'd had a better skate, but being an Olympian and being part of all that was just too cool.

There are a lot of talented athletes in this region. There's a lot of competition. Talent doesn't always mean you will be successful, but you have a chance to compete.

Flip Saunders

When you have other athletes (in the arena), you want to go out and you want to perform. I'm sure that got them juiced up a little bit.

Michelle Smith

There are 15,000 athletes and all have trained their entire lives for this event and want the Games to go on. Security around the athletes is just incredible at the moment.

Julie Murphy

We were surrounded by great athletes from around the country and got to take part in the opening ceremony with athletes from all over the world.

Kyle Whittingham

We've got to get every athlete in the program bigger, faster and stronger between now and August. We've got to have a heck of a summer conditioning program.

John Jones

We've got the potential, we've got the talent on this team. It's just getting people to believe in themselves and getting the 14 best athletes in our lineup.

We've just about seen everything that people can do. The key fact is we have good athletes and we can make adjustments, and they will do it on the floor.

With everyone back, our goals are high. Qualifying for the state tournament is our goal. Every high school athlete should have that as a goal.

Without that, they would have very few sponsors, ... It's key to those sponsors and that's why those sports and those athletes are getting the money.